After 10 or 11 straight days of whirlwind, 6:30 am-to-midnight Cannes Film Festival hammering, I had my first taste of relative calm and quiet today. The end of every big-time film festival demands at least a day of chill-down or else. All to explain that while I posted some stuff today, I couldn’t bring myself to write about Charlie Kaufman‘s Synecdoche, New York. Tomorrow maybe.
To my great surprise and delight, Christy Hall‘s Daddio, which I was remiss in not seeing during last year’s Telluride...
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7:45 pm: Okay, the initial light-hearted section (repartee, wedding, hospital, afterlife Joey Pants, healthy diet) was enjoyable, but Jesus, when...
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It took me a full month to see Wes Ball and Josh Friedman‘s Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes...
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Unless Part Two of Kevin Costner‘s Horizon (Warner Bros., 8.16) somehow improves upon the sluggish initial installment and delivers something...
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For me, A Dangerous Method (2011) is David Cronenberg‘s tastiest and wickedest film — intense, sexually upfront and occasionally arousing...
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